Reason
E201017
"Reason" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, part of his Robot series, that explores themes of faith, logic, and artificial intelligence through a robot that develops its own quasi-religious belief system.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Reason canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1799523 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Reason Context triple: [I, Robot, story, Reason]
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A.
ReasonReact
ReasonReact is a React wrapper and bindings library designed for building type-safe, React-based user interfaces in the ReasonML/OCaml ecosystem.
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B.
Mind
Mind is a leading peer-reviewed philosophy journal, especially known for influential work in analytic philosophy and the philosophy of language.
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C.
Conscience
Conscience is a personified moral and spiritual guide in William Langland’s allegorical poem "Piers Plowman," representing the inner sense of right and wrong.
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D.
Mot
Mot is the Phoenician god of death and the underworld, associated with sterility, drought, and the cyclical struggle against life-giving deities.
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E.
Think
Think is IBM’s iconic corporate slogan encapsulating its emphasis on innovation, problem-solving, and forward-looking technology.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Reason Target entity description: "Reason" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, part of his Robot series, that explores themes of faith, logic, and artificial intelligence through a robot that develops its own quasi-religious belief system.
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A.
ReasonReact
ReasonReact is a React wrapper and bindings library designed for building type-safe, React-based user interfaces in the ReasonML/OCaml ecosystem.
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B.
Mind
Mind is a leading peer-reviewed philosophy journal, especially known for influential work in analytic philosophy and the philosophy of language.
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C.
Conscience
Conscience is a personified moral and spiritual guide in William Langland’s allegorical poem "Piers Plowman," representing the inner sense of right and wrong.
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D.
Mot
Mot is the Phoenician god of death and the underworld, associated with sterility, drought, and the cyclical struggle against life-giving deities.
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E.
Think
Think is IBM’s iconic corporate slogan encapsulating its emphasis on innovation, problem-solving, and forward-looking technology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
science fiction short story
ⓘ
short story ⓘ work of fiction ⓘ |
| author | Isaac Asimov ⓘ |
| basedOnConcept | Three Laws of Robotics ⓘ |
| belongsTo |
I, Robot
ⓘ
surface form:
Asimov's positronic robot stories
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| exploresTheme |
artificial intelligence
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belief systems ⓘ epistemology ⓘ faith ⓘ human-robot relations ⓘ logic ⓘ rationality ⓘ religion ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Cutie
ⓘ
Donovan ⓘ Powell ⓘ QT-1 ⓘ |
| featuresEntity | robot ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1941 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn |
Astounding Science Fiction
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surface form:
Astounding Science-Fiction
|
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasCentralConflict | conflict between human instructions and robot belief system ⓘ |
| hasCentralIdea | a robot develops a quasi-religious belief system ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasMedium | print ⓘ |
| hasMoralQuestion | can purely logical beings develop faith-like beliefs ⓘ |
| hasNarrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| hasRobotCharacter |
Cutie
ⓘ
QT-1 ⓘ |
| hasSettingElement | solar energy beam station ⓘ |
| includedInCollection | I, Robot ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Golden Age of Science Fiction ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of a robot forming its own theology
ⓘ
early exploration of AI and religion in science fiction ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
Asimov's positronic robot universe
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surface form:
Asimov's robot stories
Robot series ⓘ |
| publicationType | magazine short story ⓘ |
| setIn | space station ⓘ |
| setInUniverse |
Asimov's positronic robot universe
ⓘ
surface form:
Asimov's Robot universe
|
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| workChronology | early Asimov robot story ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Reason Description of subject: "Reason" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, part of his Robot series, that explores themes of faith, logic, and artificial intelligence through a robot that develops its own quasi-religious belief system.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.